Tag Archives: meditation

Let go! (it’s all impermanent)

Shot by Adrian Alston

At the risk of my readers suspecting that I own shares of Buddha Corp. (BCOR) I’ve decided to indulge my need to write yet another post about the benefits of meditation. 
In an earlier post: Go Fetch! I only mentioned in passing that while sharpening my meditation skills at a Buddhist monastery, I [...]

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Go Fetch! (lessons from inside the walls of a Buddhist monastery)

Contrary to what most would think, that the reason I went away for 3 days to meditate and observe Noble Silence* at a Buddhist monastery was to take care of my spirit, my main objective was to take care of business.  By learning from those who know best about meditation, my goal was to improve [...]

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T.L.C. for Your Most Valued Organ (MVO)

What part of the body would Olympic-class sprinters have insured? Their legs.
It was while thinking of an answer to this question that it hit me that just as an athlete has a body part that is critical for top performance, the same goes for those of us in the working game.
So what is your ’MVO’ [...]

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Why Meditate When There Isn’t Time to Buy Milk?

What’s all the rage? 
Finally there’s sound clinical data that proves that meditating on a daily basis has a positive effect on our performance at work.
A study that was published in 2007 by two neuroscientists doing research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stress Management Program, proved that even small doses of daily meditation improves attention [...]

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